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Communities in Bloom 2009 winners North of Toronto
One of the sure ways of finding an array of wonderful spring
flowers on display is to visit the Community in Bloom award winners. In
fact your are probably going to see great displays throughout the gardening
season. See 2009 Communities north
of Toronto winners.
Spring In Ontario starts when the Canada
Blooms March trade show starts in Toronto usually during the March
Break holiday. A favourite for gardeners, the shows attracts green
thumbs from across the country. Ontario travel north provides some of
the best locations to view a variety of growing zones and is unique for
its beautiful spring colours, wildflowers, return of many species of birds
and butterflies attracted of new blooms. Spring coincides with the beginning
of the fishing season, wildlife viewing and romantic getaway weekends.
Ontario's natural outdoors can be best viewed on a spring
road trip north of Toronto. Before heading out see spring
travel tips.
One of the first signs of spring is the number of spring flowers that
begin to bloom, even before all of the snow melts. An old wives tale says,
"It is good luck to make a wish when you see your first spring wildflower.
You make the wish for someone else, and all the joys of spring will go
to you and the person you wished for.
The Province of Ontario has their official flower the Trillium. The Trillium
grows wild and is predominant throughout the woodlands and forests north
of Toronto. This is a truly remarkable flower, mostly white in colours
but with hues of purples and pinks with the odd pure purple colored Trillium.
Travel North in Ontario to see beautiful Spring Flowers.
One of the great debates and questions among botanists, and flower experts;
“ What denotes a wildflower or a weed”?
Can a weed be a spring flower in Ontario? This editor’s answer
is “of course”! Often it is municipalities, and government
departments that convince us, that a perfectly beautiful flower is defined
in official
Legislation or rules and regulations as a weed. Here are a number of links
that will help the reader determine their own choice of weeds or spring
flowers.
www.ontariowildflower.com/
www.muskoka.worldweb.com/Photos/FlowersandTrees/
Please feel free to send us your best photograph of a “Spring
Flower in Ontario”, and we will add this to our Best
of North of Toronto Pages
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